Thinking of bringing my blog back to life.

What was the first thing ever sold on eBay?

Once upon a time, many wondered if a company like eBay would even work. Since then, the online auction house has silenced the doubters. -- everything from fake vomit to Lamborghinis is just a click away. Ah, but of all those millions of sales, which was the very first? EBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. Though he's now a billionaire (of course), Pierre started AuctionWeb (as it was then known) as a simple "side hobby."

In late '95, Pierre made history when he sold eBay's first item -- a broken laser pointer he had originally bought as a cat toy. Amazingly, the buyer paid $14.00 for the kaput pointer. We imagine it was about this time Pierre realized he was on the cusp of creating something great. It's true that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it is broke, maybe you should forget about the repairs and just sell it.

Found on "I did now know that yesterday!" blog

Big Up Joe... Blair , take note you Moron.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from ( spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison
complex.

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies.

He says: "they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told
them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even
explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), the Associated Press reports:
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed- wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is hell.
It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."

Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers
are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any
crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running
out of prison spaces.

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona

CSS Mastery on the way

No, my letter to Santa didn't win me a copy of CSS Mastery but it is on its way. I ordered it online and I can't wait for it to come.

Andy Budd's christmas giveaway

Dear Santa,

As you know I'm moving soon and money will be tight. All I want for Christmas is a good book to curl up in bed with. I hope that on Christmas morning I wake up and under my tree I find Andy Budd's "CSS Mastery" all wrapped up nicely with a tag addressed to me (hint hint). Just in case you aren't aware of his book I'm enclosing a copy of the cover so that you don't miss it in the bookstores (see below).



Please Santa, one of my new years resolutions this year is to learn even more about CSS and web standards and everything else I can get my hands on and I KNOW that this book will be a great help.

See you on Christmas morning Santa,
Your mince pies and brandy will be waiting for you.

Funny Vauxhall Corsa Adverts

Being a "creative" I love watching good adverts.
Here are two new Vauxhall Corsa ads that star popular "beanies".

Made me laugh. I think they are cute :)

CMS Text Editors

I read a really good article about Content Management text editors over at www.standards-schmandards.com's blog. Basically they are talking about a new text editor that is under development: WYMeditor.

WYMeditor formats text correctly with style sheets thus avoiding users changing fonts, font sizes and colours. And best of all? The mark up it creates is nice and clean without any nasty styling html tags in between the source code.